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The 2010 Tennessee floods were floods in Middle Tennessee, West Tennessee, south-central and western Kentucky and northern Mississippi areas of the United States of America as the result of torrential rains on May 1 and 2, 2010. Floods from these rains affected the area for several days afterwards, resulting in a number of deaths and widespread ...
The project, if constructed, was estimated to lower 100-year flood waters in the Twin Cities by over 1.5 feet (0.5 m) as well as protect 25% of buildings that were at-risk during a major flood event. The waters would be released after the threat of a flood has eased, or the river basin has been determined to withstand additional flow.
A flood insurance rate map ( FIRM) is an official map of a community within the United States that displays the floodplains, more explicitly special hazard areas and risk premium zones, as delineated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [1] The term is used mainly in the United States but similar maps exist in many other countries ...
The number of structures in 100-year flood plains in Williamson County has increased by more than 6,000 since 1994, according to updated maps from a county study. The maps use the most recent ...
The next step in the mapping process is the resolution of all comments and appeals, FEMA said. Once they are resolved, the agency will notify communities of the effective date of the final maps ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) defines the floodplain as the area that would be flooded by a base flood, which is "the flood which has a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year". In this sense, a base flood is synonymous with a 100-year flood and a floodplain is synonymous with a special flood hazard area.
Passenger Creek. Passenger Creek, formerly called Parsons Creek, [1] is a creek in Montgomery County, Tennessee, United States, flowing northwest from Sango, Tennessee, to the Red River which flows through Port Royal, Tennessee, and is east of Clarksville, Tennessee. The creek flows through both farmland and rural neighborhoods: "Passenger ...
The flood crest of the Gan River passed the city of Nanchang on June 23. Residents of the city of Ganzhou were protected from the flooding by drains built in the area during the Song Dynasty. Fujian Province. In Fujian, 400 victims of flooding were safely transferred and properly rehoused. Seventy-six people were killed, and 79 were missing ...